We were struggling to realize it was Monday today, thinking it was Sunday for a little while. Now we know it's Monday because Steve Spangler is here, and only Steve could bring in something this crazy. And did you notice that Mark didn't show today?
Do you think there's any... possibility that you know for our longtime viewers. I want to introduce you to Brian Higgins. We found him, he was just walking around on the street and I just said, no, Brian's a part of the Spangler Effect, part of our YouTube series.
He's been doing demos with us for a long time and I thought that today I asked you if you would... come and do the bed of nails yeah I'm not exactly sure what I was getting into you before you were awake sure that sounds fun I even printed a t-shirt for him I survived the bed nails he hasn't done it yet but it'll all be in good time first of all Kim would you look down here the bed of nails classic demonstration first of all feel this they're just fake nails so what no they're not I know they're real you lay down on one day I'm gonna tell you the secret up front you lay down on one nail you ruin the day right but you're right lay down on 1490 nails it kind of ruins the day but not a lot because you're taking all of your weight and you're distributing over this entire thing but here focus right down here ready kind of look right down here in this particular area watch this see it sticks there's no question right stay right there it it sticks so it's not like they're not sharp nails they are sharp nails it's just you know we help kind of train science teachers who do demonstrations and if he just kind of lays down on it right now there's no moment of suspense so that's why we've kind of rigged it up this way so watch this we put this right here so now Brian come around this way and Brian can just kind of sit down yep this is gonna be so perfect so you can sit right here like this good now move back just a little bit more Brian good are you feeling pretty good about it yeah your microphone cable got okay so now come down here we go here he goes here he goes are you okay pillow just got it the comfort are you feeling good yeah I know Now watch this, I'm going to pull this part out right here. Now he is on it. What he said to me a little earlier is, isn't it dumb that I wore shorts?
Yes, it is. This is just a little lesson. Are you doing okay, Higgs? Yeah. It doesn't feel all that good, does it?
It doesn't feel great, but it's not bad. No, and in fact, see, all the pressure is on this, on his legs down here. So that's not a good place.
What he wants to do is to be as flat out as he can. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put this right under here. There. Like just like that, so you get a little support. How's that Higgs?
Wow, thanks Steve. Is that much better? Yeah. See that's great. Like someone putting a pillow under their knees.
It's awesome. Yeah, absolutely. So now tell everybody what you feel because at home, I mean they're gonna go, oh this is gonna hurt the guy. Yeah, so actually there's certain parts that are a little more pressure than others, but for the most part, I mean I wouldn't say it's comfortable, but it doesn't hurt.
Notice our lesson here is that we distributed all of that weight over there, but that's not it Kim. Kim, it's more fun. So this is the exciting part.
How much more can he do? Would you put on this? Oh no. Oh no.
I'm gonna do it. Kim, you should put on these safety glasses. That's a good idea. Okay. Good, and we can, I'll take the microphone from you.
Okay. Good, and I'm gonna put this here because Kim, we have something else. We have a second bed of nails. All right, so this bed of nails now goes on him, which is perfectly fine.
Don't worry, it looks like there's blood. That was just from another time. All right, so it's fine. Don't worry about it. It's just a Halloween step.
All right, so this goes here. No, you're not gonna do this. Are you feeling good? How you doing? Good as you can.
Okay, so now, Kim, watch this. This is totally fun, the cinder block goes on top like this. And now, see, best part is you take the hammer now and smash it.
Are you sure? I like him. I like Brian. Are you ready Higgs? Let's do it this way so they can kind of see it.
Are you ready? We're going to distribute the weight. Three, two, one.
That's why he's got the safety shield on. Look at this. Ready? We're here. It's off.
We're going to take the screws off of him like this. There's little indentations in his shirt. Well, I know. Of course there are. All right.
Okay, ready? Higgs, hurry up. Good. He slowly stands up. Look at this.
He survived the bed of nails. Dun-da-da-da. Yeah. Isn't that the greatest thing?
That's just terrific. And here's the best part. Watch this.
To prove to everybody. Here, watch this. To prove. Watch this. Drink.
So he drinks. See? There's no problem at all.
And see, nothing bad is happening whatsoever. No. There's nothing happening.
He does not know. It's fine. He does not know.
He's perfectly fine, ladies and gentlemen. Everything is fine. It's okay. Nothing to look at here, people.
He's not leaking at all. Oh, nothing to see here. Nothing to see here.
Look away. You know what? You're going to tell them about the website.
Next week, I'm going to come back and show how to do a safe version of the bed of nails you can make at home. Oh, because everybody wants to do this at home. Or a balloon. I'm going to show you how to do a balloon with the bed of nails. Go to 9news.com and you will find everything you need to know about Spankler Science because perhaps you're warped in your home, too, and you want to know how you could do this.
best with a baloon. Absolutely, absolutely right. And he's fine, don't worry about it, he's perfectly fine.
Yeah, sure. A commercial and everything is just fine, don't worry about it. Uh huh, sure.
He's just fine. There's no, nothing to see here. I thought I was, I'm positive.
Nothing to see.